[modeleng] Re: Donington
- From: "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:03:31 +0100 (BST)
Did he?
All of his boiler drawings that I've seen had everything fully bushed,
except for 8BA or 9BA holes for securing things like the firedoor - and
I'm talking about designs such as that for Maisie's boilers, and didn't he
design that in the 1930's.
Helen Long's boiler I also thought was similarly well designed, and this
was one of his 1920's designs.
What of his boiler designs are you thinking of, as it would seem odd if
he went from designing like this around 1930, to being less 'careful'
later on?
Yours,
Rich.
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Clif Walker wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> One of the snags with LBSC Boilers was that he quite happily drilled and
> tapped the boiler barrel to fix handrails and feeds and just did the same
> thing for some of the fixings on the Backhead.
> All of these should be bushed. The idea of something like a 1/4" X 40 thread
> into 1/8" thick copper scares the hell out of me.
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
>
> ----- > Got the book on LBSC, his Life and Locomotives. It's quite
> interesting to
> > see that some of his designs are still being built, 50 years on.
> >
> > Question: are the techniques he used for his boiler designs and
> > construction considered OK by today's standards, or is there a pragmatic
> > approach taken on the basis that they've never been known to fail?
> >
> > Peter Chadwick
> > Swindon.
> >
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